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...life. It further contended that the special hearing testimony, interesting though it may have been, had nothing to do with Armstrong, who was personally unknown to most of the witnesses. The judge did not comment directly on the relevance of the testimony. But last week he imposed a maximum sentence of 23 years, just two less than the prosecutors had asked. "Long live the revolution," shouted the defendant, who still faces related federal charges...
Donleavy's greatest asset is his own clipped, ungrammatical style, which reads quickly and cleanly, giving maximum impact to shocking references. But his heavy reliance on vulgar images weakens their shock value, as in this discription of a Queens neighborhood...
...emergency fuel legislation through Congress. Jackson has introduced a bill that would authorize the President to declare a national fuel emergency if U.S. demand exceeds supply by 5% or more. The bill calls for many feasible conservation measures. Domestic wells would be required to pump oil faster than their "maximum efficient rates," a move that would risk damaging the oilfields by reducing the underground pressure. Electric utilities that could do so would have to convert from burning oil to coal-at the cost of more pollution. Highway speed limits would be lowered to 50 m.p.h.; motorists would be required...
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...affected by Abstract Expressionism) wanted to keep handwriting-the visible gesture of the brush, done in and for itself-in his work. A large part of his enterprise over the past several years has been both to preserve the spontaneous mark and to generate the maximum illusion...